WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT.
Once more the House of Representatives has affirmed the principle that women ought to have the light to be elected to Parliament. The Bill passed the Lower House, but the l pper lloum*. standing or. its cliguA . has amended the Bdl to take away the tight of women to be nominated to the Legislative Council, holding that the Bill infringed the privileges of the Council that a Bill to alter its constitution should not originate in the Lower House. The Lower House has refused to accept the amendment, and both Houses have appointed Managers to meet and confer. So the matter stands as we go to press, and this Bill, granting a simple matter of justice to the women of this Dominion, stands in jeopardy of being killed, not because either branch of the Legislature disbelieves in the principle, but on a question of privilege.
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White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 292, 19 October 1919, Page 11
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148WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT. White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 292, 19 October 1919, Page 11
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